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London and Middlesex / Re: Robert Plant (b. 1841 - d.1902)
« on: Friday 08 May 09 13:20 BST (UK)  »
Hi again - thanks for your email.  For some reason the site isn't letting me see your private reply - is there any way we can overcome this?
Pat

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London and Middlesex / Re: Robert Plant (b. 1841 - d.1902)
« on: Friday 08 May 09 11:44 BST (UK)  »
Robert Plant was my Gt. Grandfather - I am descended from Henry Vincent (1878) his son.  In 1874 he opened the Birches Colliery which then ran into difficulties in 1881 due to geological problems.  In 1887 he formed the Cheadle Railway, Mineral and Land Co. Ltd. - the company planned to build a railway which left the main line at Cresswell, continued to Totmonslow and then terminated in the southern outskirts of Cheadle.  Support for the new line was gathered and £100,000 raised and the first sod was cut on 22.3.1888 by Edward James Robert (son of Robert).  However very soon the company ran out of money and it was not until November 1892 that the first section of the line (Cresswell to Totmonslow) was opened and Draycott got its second station.  I'm not sure when exactly he became bankrupt but he was certainly living in Hornsey in the 1891 Census. 
My brother visited Cheadle in the 1970's shortly before Robert's Mansion was demolished and have a couple of photographs in my possession.
pat d

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